The errors of young men, are the ruin of business；but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold；stir more than they can quiet；fy to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees；pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences；use extreme remedies at frst；and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them；like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both；for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both；and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors；and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity, youth. But for the moral part, perhaps youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politic.